Sunday, February 1, 2009

Mornings at les Bons Samaritains


Every morning the students line up by grade and slowly raise the flag as they sing the national anthem. After that they say prayers and then walk into school. It's solemn and serious. The school has gotten so big now that they don't all fit in the courtyard; the little ones in kindergarten and first grade are in the courtyard behind me.
They all wear uniforms; the boys have blue plaid shirts and navy pants, and the girls wear blue plaid blouses and navy jumpers and blue hair ribbons. The kindergarten girls wear a plaid dress- and a starched handkerchief is often pinned to the front.
The Mortel Foundation has just bought some adjacent properties and they are going to increase the size of this courtyard so the kids will have more space for activities.

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